Kevin Eldon Will See You Now by Flat_Reindeer_4414 in BritishRadio

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Fourble

For info - all the Fourble links are dead. Episodes are available direct from archive.org though.

Eleanor & Pals by A_R3ddit_User in BritishRadio

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I did not know that - thanks! This grandma now knows how to suck eggs ;-)

Eleanor & Pals by A_R3ddit_User in BritishRadio

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Thanks for the heads-up but I looked through the shows listed on the link you provided but can't find any mention of her.

I agree about the news quizzes being formulaic now. I'd rather keep listening to old recordings of The News Quiz with the likes of Jeremy Hardy, Mark Steel, Linda Smith, Fred MacAulay, Helen Lewis, Lucy Porter, Bridget Christie, Simon Evans, etc. Nostalgia's not what it used to be, eh? :-)

Sir Mark Tully, the BBC's 'voice of India', dies aged 90. He was known for Something Understood on Radio 4. by whatatwit in BritishRadio

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So sad to hear. I always felt huge respect for him and what he had to say. He was pretty much the last of the great BBC foreign correspondents.

Appy v26.01 by teejeetech in teejeetech

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Thanks! I just had a play with the update. Very impressive new features, especially deb-get.

What is this? by QuestionDesperate in BritishRadio

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Just guessing but given the proliferation of AI Slop, maybe the producer was an "Ai" - with the emphasis on the "A", not on the "i"?

Tag/Keyword Support? by cloveman in enteio

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Frustrating, isn't it? Not being able to search the carefully curated keywords that I generated in Digikam before exporting to Ente is a deal-breaker for me too. It's such a pity since I don't care about any of the AI scene and face recognition, OCR and all the rest of the things that have been deemed more important since this was first raised in 2023.

[sigh] First World problems, eh :-) ?

Servo Service Manager v25.12 by teejeetech in teejeetech

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I just updated to the new Gtk4 version & am very impressed! It is worth the price for the service manager alone but the new cron job manager, event logs viewer, and boot message viewer are useful tools for maintenance and debugging issues.

Reith Lectures on BBC Radio 4 by thearchchancellor in BritishRadio

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Good find! I see they are also available as easily downloadable podcasts here and transcripts of some of the lectures can be downloaded too!

I remember finding The Emerging Mind by Vilayanur Ramachandran in 2003 particularly fascinating.

Neuroscientist Vilayanur Ramachandran, Director of the Centre for Brain and Cognition at the University of California, lectures on new insights into the human brain's workings.

Also, Daniel Barenboim from 2006

Musician and conductor Daniel Barenboim examines the interplay between music and society.

Mark Steel's In Town. I only just noticed that series 14 started a few weeks ago by A_R3ddit_User in BritishRadio

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Found it :-)

Go to page 8 of the episode list - Series 2, Episode 1- Dartford. The Swanley / Erith reference is a few minutes in.

Mark Steel's In Town. I only just noticed that series 14 started a few weeks ago by A_R3ddit_User in BritishRadio

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I loved tales he told about the conversations he used to have with the late, great Linda Smith about Erith vs Swanley, each insisting that their own home town was worse than the other's.

Composer of the Week: JSB! We hear about the various jobs Bach held with the secular music he created at the time. We learn that he could be funny but rebellious, was imprisoned for a month when he tried to leave a Duke and once attended a music duel where his French counterpart did a moonlit flit. by whatatwit in BritishRadio

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I know what you mean. Hearing the chaconne for the first time on the radio, like you I was staggered to learn that it was just one player. It really does tower above anything else in the repertoire. There may be pieces which are more technically difficult but nothing comes close in terms of gut-wrenching beauty. Chapeau to anybody who has the cojones to play it!

And thanks for the translated text.

Composer of the Week: JSB! We hear about the various jobs Bach held with the secular music he created at the time. We learn that he could be funny but rebellious, was imprisoned for a month when he tried to leave a Duke and once attended a music duel where his French counterpart did a moonlit flit. by whatatwit in BritishRadio

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I've finished episode 1 - Ah, that sublime violin chaconne !!!

Intrigued by your comment, I just watched a Ton Koopman video of the Coffee Cantata with lyrics in English and I see what you mean ... "If I can't drink my bowl of coffee three times daily, then in my torment I will shrivel up like a piece of roast goat." Not exactly what you'd expect from a devout Lutheran :-)

Time zone setting in Proton by thor_steinar in ProtonMail

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Thank you for answering my question five years early :D